Shoe float or rasp



(No Model.)

A. D. 86 H. E. GOODELL.

. SHOE FLOAT OR HASP. No. 472,259. Patented Apr. 5, 1892.

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HENRY E. GOODELL, OF SHELBURNE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE FLOAT OR RASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,259, dated April 5, 1892. Application filed September 14, 1891. Serial No. 405,713. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALBERT D. GooDELL and HENRY E. GOODELL, citizens of the United States, residing at Shelburne Falls, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe Floats or Rasps; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our presentinvention relates to an improvement in what is known as shoe-floats for removing pegs and nails from the insoles of shoes; and our object is to provide a tool suitable and convenient more particularly for home use, useful, and economical. It consists, essentially, of a plate of steel (treated on one surface in a manner somewhat like that of a file or rasp) and having points turned in one direction hinged to a handle and rendered adjustable to any required angle by means of a screw-threaded collar which Works over a screw-threaded projection or boss on said plate, to which said handle is hinged.

In the drawings illustrating our invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of the tool, showing the rasp portion and the handle in right relation. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the tool, showing the rasp inclined with relation to thehandle. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the rasp.

Similar reference-letters in the drawings indicate like parts in all of the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A is the rasp, formed of a plate of steel slightly curved longitudinally on its face and cut or raised somewhat after the manner of a tile or rasp, with diagonally-intersecting grooves forming points all raking in a common direction. Pivoted to the rasp A is a bifurcated clip a.

B is the shank of the rasp-handle, having at one end a tongue 19, which, together with the cylindrical portion of said shank, is screwthreaded, A screw-threaded collar 0 is provid ed to run on the end of the shank B. The tongue I) of the spindle is fitted in the slot of the clip and pivoted to the latter. end of said clip forms a shoulder against which the oollarc is designed to abut. To the shank The free i B is fixed a wooden hand-hold provided with a ferrule placed in the usual manner. The collar 0 is run on the screw-threaded end of the shank B (before said shank is secured by a rivet) to the clip a, so that when the rasp and shank are coupled the collar 0 will be kept from falling away. The rasp, by means of the pivoted union of itself andspindle, may be inclined at any desired angle with reference to the spindle or shank B and clamped to position by means of the screw-threaded collar, which is run toward it until it bears against the shoulder of the clip to secure the rasp to the desired inclination. By turning the rasp about the clip a as an axis its broad side will have the same angle of inclination while presenting a larger surface to the part of the sole being rubbed.

To do not wish to confine ourselves to the construction in which the rasp has all of its cutting-points in one direction. Neither do we wish to be confined to the rasp as pivoted to'move about its axis, as in some cases it is desirable to have the rasp fixed with reference to its clip.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-.

ters Patent, is-

1. In a shoe-float, the combination, with a rasp longitudinally curved on its face and having secured thereto a bifurcated clip, of the handle of said rasp, having a shank provided with a screw-threaded end and a tongue pivoted to said clip, and the screw-threaded collaron the handle for adj usting the rasp at any desired angle, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the rasp, as described, adjustably pivoted to the shank of the handle, of the collar or nut adj ustably secured to said shank and adapted for the adj ustment of said rasp at anydcsired angle, as and for the purpose set forth.

' In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT D. GOODELL. HENRY E. GOODELL.

Witnesses:

HAMILTON A. SWEET, A. K. HAWKS. 

